Overclocking for beginners...
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Just had a chat with a sales director in my office. As the only mildly technical person outside of Canada (I'm presales) I am also IT support in our office, with everything that entails!
He has bought a new stock 2GHz PC for home, and has decided to carry out some amateur overclocking. He's taken the PC up to 2.4GHz...
...and hasn't changed the cooling
...and it sits in a little cubby hole built in to his desk designed for a tower.
Apparently everyone else on the forum he is reading have achieved a temperature of around 35oC with their identical CPUs, and he is wondering where he has gone wrong as his CPU reaches 80oC and then cuts out...
He has bought a new stock 2GHz PC for home, and has decided to carry out some amateur overclocking. He's taken the PC up to 2.4GHz...
...and hasn't changed the cooling
...and it sits in a little cubby hole built in to his desk designed for a tower.
Apparently everyone else on the forum he is reading have achieved a temperature of around 35oC with their identical CPUs, and he is wondering where he has gone wrong as his CPU reaches 80oC and then cuts out...
Cooling is a big problem, putting it in a cubby that was designed for a tower is a bad move if you are overclocking, make sure he has a good quality fan and make sure that it has a good layer of thermal paste to transfer the heat.
He might need to up the voltage a little so the CPU gets a decent supply although the motherboard may not allow it.
He might need to up the voltage a little so the CPU gets a decent supply although the motherboard may not allow it.
well FWIW - I mildly overclock my P3 from 3Ghz to 3.3Ghz - even doing that produced a rather amazing amount of heat. Problem solved by sticking an arctic cooling heat pump cpu cooler on - only about £30 and adding a rear exhaust 120mm fan , plus cut a hole in the side panel and added a 120mm inlet fan - plus I already have a 120mm at the front sucking are in over the hard drives to cool them down. CPU runs at 35-40 deg even when running 100% and the arctic cooling system is almost silent :-)
Sticking it in a cubby with no extra fans amazed he hasnt melted something yet. at the very least he should make sure the cubby has no back so the hot air has somewhere to go, have at least one big exhaust fan in there, plus a decent intake fan AND an upgraded CPU cooler. To be honest overclocking at the level I do it isnt really worth the effort for the return you get. To get serious extra horsepower thats worth having (say 20% extra or more) you need quality cooling , quality memory etc.
Sticking it in a cubby with no extra fans amazed he hasnt melted something yet. at the very least he should make sure the cubby has no back so the hot air has somewhere to go, have at least one big exhaust fan in there, plus a decent intake fan AND an upgraded CPU cooler. To be honest overclocking at the level I do it isnt really worth the effort for the return you get. To get serious extra horsepower thats worth having (say 20% extra or more) you need quality cooling , quality memory etc.
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